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Here are the the videos. New ones at the top, older ones at the bottom. All of them are in (sur)RealMedia format (unless noted otherwise). To download, right-click on the links and "Save As..." or "Save Target As..."
(run away now while you still can!)
I'm So Happy When You're Near -- Size:
1.5M Created: 31 July 2004
NOTES: Since SO many people enjoyed my "Mrs.
Miller" videos, I thought I'd go one better and introduce the Funday Pawpet Show
to the wonders of "The Shaggs." For those who may not have heard The Shaggs,
they are... an experience.
MUSIC:
"I'm So Happy When You're Near" by The Shaggs
PUPPET: Maki-chan and Fumi
That Little Sports Car -- Size:
1.5M Created: 31 July 2004
NOTES: One Shaggs song is never enough. So
here's a second one.
MUSIC:
"That Little Sports Car" by The Shaggs
PUPPET: Maki-chan and Fumi
My Love -- Size:
1.5M Created: 31 July 2004
NOTES: Another fairly quick video. The
people on the Funday Pawpet Show kept harping on and on about how abysmal the
songs of Mrs. Miller are, so I made a pair of videos showcasing her songs. I
like this song in particular an awful lot, but I don't really know why.
MUSIC:
"My
Love" by Mrs. Miller
PUPPET: Maki-chan
A Lover's Concerto -- Size:
1.6M Created: 31 July 2004
NOTES: Another fairly quick video. The
people on the Funday Pawpet Show keep harping on and on about how abysmal the
songs of Mrs. Miller are, so I made a pair of videos showcasing her songs. I
like the silly emotion portrayed in this song -- especially toward the end.
MUSIC:
"A
Lover's Concerto" by Mrs. Miller
PUPPET: Maki-chan
Money -- Size:
2.6M Created: 26 February 2004
NOTES: Another straightforward video.
Nothing special -- no visual effects or overblown acting. I'm saving it for a
special video I have planned (it's over half-made now, but I have to wait for
the right time to finish it). Ooo... Foreshadowing!
MUSIC:
"Money" by Space
PUPPET: Patrick
Bitchin' Camaro -- Size:
2.1M Created: 26 February 2004
NOTES: This marks the first video for 2004.
Yes, yes... It's been too long since I've made one. This was a "quick and
dirty" video with lots of errors. I controlled both puppets at the same time, so
my attention was split between the two (you'll note that Bueller's mouth doesn't
move on his first line because I was positioning Walter). Still, it was a fun
song to do and I hope people will find it entertaining.
MUSIC:
"Bitchin' Camaro" by The Dead Milkmen
PUPPETS: Walter Woolfe and Bueller
My Baby Loves A Bunch Of Authors
-- Size: 1.7M Created:
6 December 2003
NOTES: I've been wanting to make a video of
this song for a LONG time. It's a fun piece. This is yet another experiment in
split-screens. It came out a little better than my first split-screen attempt,
but I can't figure out HOW I did it with the new software. I really should read
the manual that came with Vegas Video. Obram, my bear puppet, makes his
debut here!
MUSIC:
"My
Baby Loves A Bunch Of Authors" by Moxy Früvous
PUPPETS: Toshiro, Patrick and Obram
Something's Coming...
-- Size: 5.3M ZIP File
Created: 25 October 2003
NOTES: Happy Hallowe'en! Yes, it's been a
while since my last video. I lost my will to create for a little while and I'm
trying to jump-start it back into life. This is a very short video (less than a
minute long). The reason for the huge file size is that this video will NOT
convert well to (sur)RealMedia format and I'm supplying the MPEG version here in
a ZIP file. Filmed on a bright cheery day in late October. (NB: The first person
to compare it to the "Blair Witch Project" gets a fat lip!)
MUSIC:
"Something's Coming" by Bob Drake
PUPPET: Patrick
Welcome To The Jungle
-- Size: 1.7M Created:
23 August 2003
NOTES: This marks the first video in the
second year of SVP's existence. This, in
reality, was just a test of all the new equipment I've gotten over the past
couple of months. The video looks a little dark, but now I know to adjust the
brightness in future. By the way, the song isn't by that hard rock band from the
90's, it's a completely different song done by They Might Be Giants. It was only
available on the CD Single of "The Guitar" (now out of print).
REVISION - 30 August 2003: Taking
inspiration from a friend's comment, I have slightly altered the video to bring
an effect closer to what I originally had in mind.
MUSIC:
"Welcome To The Jungle" by They
Might Be Giants (CD Single currently out of print)
PUPPET: Patrick
Gibberish / Mrs. Robinson --
Size: 3.4M Created:
21 June 2003
NOTES: Direct from RadioTelevision
Southpaw and announced by the dulcet tones of Lee "Slothpuck" Jones, we have a rather
bizarre interview. I've wanted to do this skit by Eric Idle and Neil Innes for a
while now and I finally put it together. I recorded a close up segment for both
puppets and a group shot with the two of them. Then I sliced and diced to put it
all together -- and tried to deal with some small continuity errors (but they're
hidden well enough). (sur)Real encoding really gummed up the joke with the
credits. They're supposed to speed by as quickly as possible -- just like they
do on real television shows. :-P One other thing, Patrick is going to be
in different clothes from now on (I finally found the right sized clothing to
fit him -- he's getting a wardrobe).
Mrs. Robinson, on the other hand, is a fairly straightforward
video. Nothing special about it. It debuts my ferret, Bueller (some may get the
joke). On reflection, I really should have used a lighter drop for the
foreground. You can barely see the ferret's legs against the
so-dark-green-it's-almost-black drop used.
MUSIC:
"Gibberish" by Eric
Idle and Neil Innes (album currently out of print) /
"Mrs. Robinson" by the Lemonheads
PUPPETS: Patrick and Lenny / Bueller
Reprehensible --
Size: 2.1M Created:
17 May 2003
NOTES: I wanted to do two videos in one
week, so I dusted off my list of "music to make a quick video" and chose this
rare song from They Might Be Giants. I had this originally from their E-Music
MP3 album "Long Tall
Weekend", but got a clearer copy from their compilation "They
Got Lost." A charming little ditty about a not-so-charming person. Lenny
makes his return appearance here.
MUSIC:
"Reprehensible"
by They Might Be Giants
PUPPET: Lenny
Ray of Gob --
Size: 2.6M Created:
17 May 2003
NOTES: This hard-rocking song from
Go Home Productions is a
mind-twisting mix of the Sex Pistols' Pretty Vacant and God
Save the Queen with Madonna's Ray of Light. I had to do it,
rabid punker that I am. As a test, I changed the software that I used to capture
the video. Since it doesn't tell me if I dropped any frames, I don't know if it
works any better. All I know is that it captures LARGER frames. This can be
either a good or bad thing. Time will tell. I have
Vegas
Video 4.0 on order, so maybe the new version will be better.
MUSIC:
"Ray of Gob" by Go Home
Productions
PUPPET: Maki-chan
Drunk Again --
Size: 2.8M Created:
25 March 2003
NOTES: This song by Reel Big Fish
wasn't my first choice for a video, but it's done, so there you are. I normally
don't like doing depressing songs for my videos, but this bittersweet lament
felt right. I had a devil of a time trying to keep Patrick's hands at the
keyboard, and in the process, failed to notice his right hand was perpendicular
to the keys during filming. Oh well. There's a very subtle effect throughout
this video. Whether or not it'll be noticeable during the show is anybody's
guess.
MUSIC:
"Drunk Again" by Reel Big Fish
PUPPET: Patrick
Stealing People's Mail --
Size: 1.2M
Created: 5 March 2003
NOTES: A video done on the first take. I
wanted to keep the punk ethic on this and the "Nobody" (q.v.) video
since they were both punk rock songs: a minute or
so of practice and then done on the first take -- who cares what it looks like.
This one came out much better than "Nobody", so there you have it. Some people
had also mentioned that I haven't done much in the way of punk songs in videos.
This should shut them up. By the way, this was the first
video done using my new
Dazzle video device ("Nobody" being the second). I like how it makes my video
brighter than the old TV card I was using, but I've got to
make some adjustments -- as I seem to be dropping a frame of video every second
during capture. That, and the RealPlayer encoding really doesn't like a fast
moving video. It's jerky as all get-out. Someday, I'll have the room to put the
MPEG version of my videos here. :-/
MUSIC:
"Stealing People's Mail" by Dead Kennedys
PUPPET: Patrick
Nobody -- Size: 1.5M
Created: 5
March 2003
NOTES: Another video done on the first take (and it shows). I've wanted to do
this cover by Chixdiggit for a while now. I'll probably re-do it at a later date
and make it more "professional". This also marks the debut of Terrence
the coyote. His name was originally going to be "T.J.", but I found out after
the video was made that there was someone in the Pawpet Show's channel who went
by the handle "TJ Coyote" (and I wondered why the name sounded right/familiar).
The explanation here of the name change is to avoid confusion, but he's still
credited as T.J. in this video.
MUSIC:
"Nobody" (undocumented bonus track) by Chixdiggit!
PUPPETS: Terrence (T.J.) and Patrick
Eaten by the Monster of Love --
Size: 2.4M Created:
8 February 2003
NOTES: My first video for 2003! Also, my
first attempt at a tri-split screen. I think it turned out rather well. Yes, I
know you can see the divisions, all I have to do now is learn to puppet in a
straight line. I wanted this done in time for the Valentine's edition of the
Funday Pawpet Show. As it turned out, there were so many videos submitted
that mine was squeezed out. It'll be shown, just not on the Valentine's show.
The opening scene was done as a little humor for the show.
MUSIC:
"Narcissus" by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and
"Eaten by the Monster of Love" by Sparks
PUPPETS: Lenny, Patrick, Toshiro and Warren
One Tin Soldier
-- Size: 1.4M Created:
13 December 2002
NOTES: My first video created with Vegas
Video 3.0 from start to finish. Vegas Video is SO much more easy to use than
Premiere. This is a fairly simple video. No breath-taking leaps here, except for
the fact that I FINALLY have my lighting issues solved. Hurrah! I also have to
make some adjustments to Lenny's muzzle -- there's far too much play inside
there for my hand to comfortably mime singing. This song burned my arm out with
Lenny, but when I tried the same song with Patrick, it was hurting nowhere near
as much. Time to experiment...
MUSIC:
"One
Tin Soldier" by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
PUPPET: Lenny
Under
The Table With Her --
Size: 1.6M Created:
30 November 2002
NOTES: I normally use Sonic Foundry's "VideoFactory
2.0" to produce my videos, but I had an opportunity to use Adobe
Premiere 6.0 (as a test) to see if it would be better for me. After this video,
I couldn't uninstall it fast enough! Completely futile. I guess the biggest
issue with Premiere is that I don't use Digital Video (I'm all VHS Analogue,
baby!), and DV is Premiere's strong suit. I used Premiere for only ONE effect (a
momentary split-screen) and it's rather glaring when it happens. Nope. Adobe
will not have to worry about either Piracy or a Sale from me. I have a (fully
legit and paid-for) copy of
Vegas
Video (VideoFactory's BIG brother) coming to me in the mail. I
think I'll get more mileage out of that programme rather than Premiere. Oh...
the video has the debut of Barley (the scruffy dog) and Lenny (finally got the
full-sized lion puppet). 25 bonus points if you know where the opening tag music
is from.
REVISION - 13 December 2002: Using Vegas Video, I made the video a little lighter and made the split screen
much less glaring.
MUSIC:
"Under the Table with Her" by Sparks
PUPPETS: Barley and Lenny
Mr. Bad Example --
Size: 2.2M Created:
30 November 2002
NOTES: Pretty much straightforward. This
took me three tries (on two separate days) to get it done right. Because of the
continuous stream of lyrics over the course of the entire song, this was
MURDER to mime. My left arm is still sore. Ouch! Oddly enough, the
Funday Pawpet Show credited the song to the Warren Zevon album "Learning
to Flinch" (a live album) instead of the title track to "Mr. Bad Example" (a
studio album that is presently out of print) where I originally got the song. So
much for accuracy. 10 bonus points if you know where the opening tag music is
from.
MUSIC:
"Mr.
Bad Example" by Warren Zevon
PUPPET: Patrick (aka PunkTiger)
Baby Portable Rock --
Size: 2.7M Created:
1 October 2002
NOTES: This will probably be my last
J-pop/Pizzicato Five song for a while. There were a number of issues I had while
filming this video. From lighting (forgetting to turn them on, or having them go
out mid-take -- I gave up trying to properly light the window scene) to props
(it took me a while to locate my old record player, and I created the label
shown on the record), I put a lot of work into this video, but I still feel like
I did a half-arsed job. Warren Woolf (not to be confused with his twin brother Walter)
debuts at the end of the video.
Bonus points if you know where the opening music for the production tag came
from.
MUSIC:
"Baby Portable Rock" by Pizzicato
Five
PUPPETS: Maki-chan and Warren Woolf
Wasting My Life --
Size: 1.9M Created: 13 September 2002
NOTES: Decided to make use of Mini-Lenny and
Mini-Punk at the beginning. The opening snippet of music is
"She Broke My
Dick" by All. A delightful little ditty, but would most likely break the FPS
rating if played in its entirety. That being said, the writing on Punk's... erm...
organ is the word "Melodiya" in Russian Cyrillic characters. Southpaw Trivia:
That's the make of Punk's balalaika and amplifier. I think it's the
Russian word for "music", but I'm not sure.
MUSIC:
"Wasting My Life" by The Hippos
PUPPETS: Mini-Lenny, Mini-Punk, Patrick
I -- Size: 1.3M
Created: 13 September 2002
NOTES: Maki-chan's debut video. I wanted to
have her wear a bit more jewelry, but couldn't find anything to please her... or
at least that would show up well on camera. Ah
well... The MPEG version of this video (sent to the FPS), for some odd reason,
made the translation captions fade from one to the other. It's a cool effect,
but it doesn't happen on the (sur)RealMedia files available here. Something to
consider for the next time I have need of captions in a video.
MUSIC:
"I" by Pizzicato Five
PUPPET: Maki-chan (No relation to Toshiro --
q.v.)
It's Not My Birthday --
Size:1.4M
Created: 22 August 2002
NOTES: In the viewfinder on my video camera, my monitor and during editing, the
lighting for this video seemed to be good enough. When it played on the FPS, it
came out far too dark. This will teach me to get more lighting for my videos.
"Good Enough" isn't. Also, my hand was cramping up big-time as the
video went on, as apparent by the copious "bouncing". By the way, the FPS has a
number of the same fox puppets I used to make this video. They are known there
as the Voop vixens. Toshiro is male, thus the odd disclaimer at the end of the
video of him not being a "Voop".
MUSIC:
"It's Not My Birthday" by They Might Be Giants
PUPPET: Toshiro Kitsune
When It Rains, It Snows --
Size: 1.3M
Created: 22 August 2002
NOTES: I abandoned the idea of creating a bunch of 30-second songs for
the Funday Pawpet Show (FPS), mainly because it would be nigh impossible to schedule
them because of their short duration and the format of the FPS itself (see note
to "The Count" below). This is my first "regular" sized video. The song itself
has a long pause within it, but I lengthened it for comedic value.
MUSIC:
"When It Rains It Snows" by They Might Be Giants
PUPPET: Patrick (aka PunkTiger)
The Count --
Size: 553K
Created: 16 July 2002
NOTES: I was thrilled that VideoFactory handled transparent GIFs.
This also shows my first crack at creating an animated GIF as well. It was a
pain getting the animation to follow in time with the song, but I think I did a
passable job. I also changed the production name on this one to "A PunkTiger 'Popcorn Video'" in anticipation of making more short music videos.
Unfortunately, this
video never was shown on the Funday
Pawpet Show.
MUSIC:
"The Count" by Wizo
PUPPET: Patrick (aka PunkTiger)
Short Attention Span --
Size: 313K Created:
2 July 2002
NOTES: My first video. 8 seconds. Self explanatory. Cameo of my
favourite anime Wild Knights Gulkeeva. If you look closely, you can see
the string.
MUSIC:
"Short Attention Span" by the Fizzy Bangers
PUPPET: Patrick (aka PunkTiger)
I plan on making more, so I'm not through with you just yet. ;-)
If you want to drop me a line, send it along to: southpaw @ clovertone . com. Thanx!